Volume 35, Number 1 HELLO FROM ACRA Table of PRESIDENT RODNEY RUNYAN Contents This latest issue of Retail Dhruv Grewal, Anne opportunities increased. Education Today includes Roggeveen, Jane Swinney, Call for Papers 2 the formal announce- Jens Nordfält, and Maria At this AMA/ACRA ment of our 2016 Confer- Vazquez did a wonderful Triennial we also un- 2015 ACRA Conference 4 Highlights ence, hosted by Montclair job organizing the paper veiled two new awards State University. Over sessions, and helping to which we plan to make a 2015 Academic Lifetime 6 the past several years we regular part of the Trien- Achievement Award received many requests to nial conference: Lifetime Recipients hold our annual confer- Achievement honors in ence in the New York Academics and Industry. 2015 ACRA Conference 10 City area, so we hope The inaugural awardees Reflections that all of you will send were Professor Michael your research papers Levy for Academics 2016 ACRA Conference 14 and workshop ideas to and Mindy Grossman Information our Co-Chairs Archa- for Industry (see more Recent Publications: na Kumar and Patrali on these two awardees Journal of Retailing 16 Chatterjee, through the elsewhere in this issue). respective track chairs in As ACRA looks to the fu- Journal of Retailing and 17 your research area. make it a great confer- ture, the need to solidify Consumer Services ence. Thanks also go to our brand as the leader We are coming off of ACRA Board members in the retail discipline is International Journal of 19 one our most successful Robert Jones and Susan important. Recognizing Retail & Distribution Triennial conferences Fiorito, who handled all individuals who have Management in recent memory. Over of the registrations prior made great contributions three full days at the to and during the confer- in scholarship and in International Review of 20 wonderful Hyatt Regency ence. We had attendees industry is essential to Retail, Distribution, & Consumer Research Alhambra in Coral Ga- from ten different coun- maintaining that leader- bles, over 130 attendees tries, which made for ship. Awards 21 heard from top industry some very diverse paper speakers, fellow research- sessions and follow-up Enjoy the latest issue of ers and also presented discussions. New friends RET, and have a wonder- 120 papers to colleagues. and colleagues were ful summer! Conference Co-Chairs made, and networking A biannual publication of the American Collegiate Retailing Association www.acraretail.org Call for Papers! We are excited to launch our next Peer-Reviewed Research Feature Articles issue of Retail Education Today in We are always looking for feature ar- September 2015! ACRA now of- Articles ticles on innovative teaching or lead- Papers should be approximately 1000- ership strategies relevant to the retail fers its newsletter twice a year, in 4000 words and should be unpublished industry and its sectors. These papers September and May. This provides and non-copyrighted. Papers will un- should emphasize issues and topics ACRA members two annual oppor- dergo a double-blind referee. The au- relevant to faculty in the classroom. tunities to contribute in a variety thor(s) will retain copyright of their Papers should not exceed 2,000 words paper. Graduate students are especially of ways. Please see below for the and will be reviewed by the RET editors encouraged to submit. The editor, along following options and coordinating for publication. deadlines for the 2015-2016 aca- with at least one reviewer, will pursue a policy of timely and meaningful review demic year. Submissions should be submitted in Mi- of each paper. If the paper is accepted, crosoft Word format to the Editor (co- the author(s) must provide the paper’s [email protected]) and cc: The BuZZ final version in Microsoft Word format. the Associate Editor (mannm@mont- Recently attended a retail-related in- Papers should comply with APA guide- clair.edu). We look forward to serving dustry or trade conference? Send us a lines. 200-word synopsis of where you went, you! who was there, and what the major themes of the conference were! Ask the Expert Have a question related to teaching re- September Issue tailing concepts? Send your question in via email to the Editor and we will find an expert to respond! Submission Deadline: August 15, 2015 2 May RET www.acraretail.org www.acraretail.org RET May 3 Conference Highlights from the AMA/ACRA Second Triennial Conference, March 4-7, 2015, Miami, FL spent 10 KENT years at Walmart RUESINK Stores where Senior Director of Space & he presid- Category Management ed over the JDA groundbreak- ing transition from CAD based planogram process to the is the Vice-President of Executive use of graphical space management tools. SANDY Talent Acquisition for HSN, Inc. (NAS- He developed a three-year roadmap and DAQ: HSNI), a direct to consumer directed the implementation to transform SOTO retail portfolio that includes HSN and the space management process and organi- zation from a tactical function to a strategic Vice President Cornerstone, which represents home role of optimizing the balance between HSN, Inc. and family lifestyle brands: Chasing Fireflies, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, store space and inventory. Improvements, Garnet Hill, Grandin Road and TravelSmith. Mr. Ruesink joined JDA in 2000 through the Her responsibilities include the overall strategy and execution of acquisition of Intactix, where he held a role Latin America, as well as conducting nu- executive talent acquisition, talent sourcing, and destination- ser in consulting guiding strategic retail and merous business diagnostics workshops for vices for the organization and works very closely with the senior CPG customers through Enterprise Suite. customers. leadership. This includes providing strategic and operational lead- He briefly joined the JDA Sales Organization ership to her team as well was ensuring that HSNi is positioned to as a Pre-Sales Consultant from 2004-06. In Mr. Ruesink is currently Sr. Director Product attract and acquire the best and external talent, delivering new 2006 he designed the JDA Category Advi- Management Group – Space & Category sourcing strategies and evolving technologies which will bring sor solution to enable Walmart suppliers Management, where he is charged with greater efficiencies to the recruiting processes, and insuring that to leverage their Retail Link data to devel- transforming customer and industry needs HSNi as an employment brand, remains on the cutting edge of op store-specific planograms. In 2007 he research into clear solution objectives and acquiring talent in the market place for future brand growth and joined JDA Strategic Services where he led roadmaps that drive revenue growth, com- success. space and category management imple- petitive differentiation and customer value. mentation initiatives in both the US and 4 May RET www.acraretail.org www.acraretail.org RET May 5 FEATURE2015 Academic LifetimeARTICLE Achievement Award Professor of Marketing and Director of the Retail ing marketing and logistics journals, including Supply Chain Institute at Babson College. He the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Marketing, received his PhD in business administration from Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Michael Levy The Ohio State University and his undergraduate and Journal of Marketing Research. He currently Charles Clarke Reynolds and MS degrees in business administration from serves on the editorial review board of the Inter- the University of Colorado at Boulder. He taught national Journal of Logistics Management, Euro- Professor of Marketing at Southern Methodist University before joining pean Business Review, and the Advisory Boards Director, Babson Retail the faculty as professor and chair of the market- of International Retailing and Marketing Review Supply Chain Institute ing department at the University of Miami. and the European Retail Research. He is coau- Babson College Babson, MA thor of Retailing Management, 9e (2015), which Professor Levy received the is the best-selling retailing text first ever Academic Lifetime in the world; Marketing, fifth Achievement Award presented “... Coauthor of Retailing edition (2016) and M-Market- at the 2015 AMA/ACRA Trienni- Management, 9e (2015), ing, fourth edition (2015), all he American Collegiate Retailing al Conference, “25 years of ded- which is the best-selling with McGraw-Hill Education. Association announces Michael icated service to the Editorial retailing text in the world; Professor Levy was co-editor Levy, Charles Clarke Reynolds Review Board of the Journal of Marketing, fourth edition of Journal of Retailing from T Retailing,” (2011), McGraw-Hill 2001 to 2007. He co-chaired Professor of Marketing and Director (2014) and M-Marketing, of the Retail Supply Chain Institute at Corporate Achievement Award the 1993 Academy of Market- for Grewal-Levy Marketing 2e third edition (2013), all ing Science conference and Babson College, as the recipient of its with McGraw-Hill/Irwin.” inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. with Connect in the Category of the 2006 Summer AMA con- Professor Levy accepted his award at the Excellence in Content and Ana- ference. AMA/ACRA Triennial Conference in Coral lytics (2010), “Revision of the Year for Marketing Gables, FL on March 5, 2015. The award was presented on behalf of the 2e (Grewal/Levy) from McGraw-Hill Irwin (2010), Professor Levy has worked in retailing and re- ACRA board and organization by current President, Rodney Runyan. Babson Faculty Scholarship